Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday again criticized Israel and called on Jews to leave the Mideast and "return to their fatherlands" in Europe. "We say that this fake regime [Israel] cannot ... logically continue to live," he said, according to a translator for The Associated Press.Ahmadinejad, in a wide-ranging news conference that included international journalists for only the second time in his short term, said anti-Semitism drove Jews out of Europe into Israel."We believe that Jews like any other human beings have the right to live in happiness and prosperity and to benefit from security," he said, according to a CNN translator. "Allow them to go back to their own fatherlands and countries."... http://www.cnn.com

Saying surfing the Web is equivalent to reading a newspaper or talking on the phone, an administrative law judge has suggested that only a reprimand is appropriate as punishment for a city worker accused of failing to heed warnings to stay off the Internet.Administrative Law Judge John Spooner reached his decision in the case of Toquir Choudhri, a 14-year veteran of the Department of Education who had been accused of ignoring supervisors who told him to stop browsing the Internet at work.The ruling came after Mayor Michael Bloomberg fired a worker in the city's legislative office in Albany earlier this year after he saw the man playing a game of solitaire on his computer.In his decision, Spooner wrote: "It should be observed that the Internet has become the modern equivalent of a telephone or a daily newspaper, providing a combination of communication and information that most employees use as frequently in their personal lives as for their work."...http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-04-24-websurfing_x.htm

A 12-year-old boy described by a neighbor as having a volatile temper was arrested in the deaths of his mother and younger brother at their apartment outside Washington, D.C.Police released few details about the slayings, discovered Sunday, and declined to say how the victims died. The boy, whose name was not released because of his age, was scheduled to appear in juvenile court Monday afternoon.“It apparently was a domestic dispute that turned deadly,” said Cpl. Debbi Carlson, a police spokeswoman. Katrina Denise Powe, 31, and her 9-year-old son, Mystery Toma Hillian, were found dead around 11 a.m. Sunday, and police took Powe’s oldest son into custody, said Cpl. Clinton Copeland, of the Prince George’s County Police Department....http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10704045/from/RSS/

About 1,500 people in flood-hit southern Romania have been forced to flee their homes after the Danube river burst through defences. The water broke through despite efforts to reinforce the dams near the villages of Bistret and Oltina. Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary have been affected by flooding caused by the swollen Danube. Thousands of hectares of land have been swamped and thousands of homes have been evacuated. Heavy rainfall and melting snow have pushed the Danube to its highest level for more than a century. ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4939002.stm

Telling jurors "there is no place on this good Earth for Zacarias Moussaoui," prosecutors asked the jury Monday to sentence the Sept. 11, 2001, conspirator to death."It is time to put an end to all this," said prosecutor David Raskin. "It is time to put an end to his hatred and venom."Raskin pointed out how Moussaoui mocked the testimony of Sept. 11 victims and their families throughout the trial."The defendant rejoices in all that pain. He told you that himself," Raskin said. "He loved it because he was responsible for it. He loved it because it meant to him, mission accomplished."The defense was to give its closing arguments later Monday. The jury was expected to begin deliberations Monday afternoon....http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-04-24-moussaoui_x.htm

Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay sternly denied Monday he had broken the law and said he was eager to tell jurors in his fraud and conspiracy trial what really happened at the energy giant. Asked by one of his lawyers whether he conspired to violate federal securities rules or broke wire fraud and securities fraud laws, Lay answered in a firm voice: "I did not." He described as "ludicrous" a charge by federal prosecutors that Lay resumed his role as Enron chief executive officer in August 2001, six months after leaving the job, and immediately took the reins of a criminal conspiracy to commit fraud. Lay said he accepted "full responsibility for everything that happened at Enron," but added, "having said that I don’t take responsibility for illegal ...http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/24/business/main1536185.shtml?source=RSS&attr=U.S._1536185